What is SEO?
Few years a go, my client ask about SEO and what’s SEO matter to his website. I am bit surprised when he ask me that, it’s a jargon in Internet marketing and he know it. SEO stand for Search Engine Optimization. We do some organic optimization to our site involving internal and external cause to make it visible on search engine. There’s bunch of SEO article out there but this issue is interesting to discuss.
This site was extremely optimized and slump in several year because of inactivity. I am bit understand how SEO works before Google Panda applied and make the crowd screams. What the heck is google Panda? is Google has panda on its engine? Not really, it’s new search algorithm introduced by Google by February 2011. It makes low quality content pushed down from the SERP. Hold on, man. What is SERP?. Well, I guess we need be more detail about that awesome jargon, right?
About Internet Explorer
Obviously, I was grown up with Internet Explorer 6. I want to write up about Internet Explorer and why we should love this browser. Internet Explorer always be victim for browser war and no one could tear IE down from browser market share. Its still has good market share until today.
We all know that IE 6, IE 7, and IE 8 has different implementation. There’s known hacks know as conditional comment, but I prefer say conditional comments are not hacking because the condition located inside HTML comments which will successfully validated by W3C Validation tool.
IE 9 has different story. This browser is the first browser implementing hardware acceleration using GPU on browser’s canvas. You will find smooth transition between scroll and animation on good GPU. Internet Explorer 9 not supporting HTML 5 and CSS 3 widely for good reason, both specification are still in draft until this article written.
Show Advertisement in The Middle of WordPress Archive Post
You want to monetizing your wordpress powered blog and you pick strategic places to put your ads. One of your ads unit place is in the middle of archive posts list and you want to modify your template / theme to accomplish the task.
There’s many way to edit your template but I want to give an example using simple template. The template will contains index.php and style.css which is the basic requirement for creating wordpress theme. If you get the idea, you may applying this technique in any theme.
Transfer Domain from GoDaddy to Namecheap
I’ve never been transfer a domain from one registrar to another registrar. This time, I would like to try to transfer one of my domain to be used on a VPS. There’s is no problem with GoDaddy anyway, this is one of my experiment sacrificing my parking domain. Namecheap offering very cheap SSL, so why not give a try since my VPS having dedicated IP.
I am bit worried since this is my first time transferring a domain. Most of time I was using move service on Directi panel and telling to my new domain provider that I push my domain into my domain panel.
I want to share my experience during pre domain transfer process. Maybe could be useful for people who never transfer domain before, just like me.
Exporting Comments to Disqus on WordPress
I was wondering how to export my website comments into Disqus. It’s very easy to move all comments to Disqus because they already made a plugin to help WordPress users to move existing comments into their system. Before using Disqus WordPress Plugin, you need to sign up to disqus to get API (Application Programming Interface) Key.
If you already have Disqus API Key. You need to download Disqus Comment System plugin from WordPress plugin repository or direct download from your WordPress Admin interface. After installation, you’ll find Disqus Plugin menu under Comments section then you can start exporting existing comments to Disqus by pressing Export Comments. You could manage comments on Disqus inside WordPress Admin, they give an iframe interface to their site.
The good thing from Disqus Plugin is Sync Comments feature which allowing you to sync between Disqus and WordPress built-in comment system. So, in next feature you’re able to retrieve comments for a post. Another point that makes me want to use Disqus is their system could help me in combating spam comments.